Method or process of treating lime.



I disintegrate the lime.

UNITED STATES PATENT since,

AUQUST He LAUxLlIAN; O-E ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

METH OD OR PROCESS OFTREATING LIME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 678,500, dated July 16, 1901. Application filed August 1, 1900 Serial No. 25,578. (No specimens.)

Tp oil; whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, Aueusr H. LAUMAN,

citizen o f the United States, and aresident of Allegheny, in the county of Allegheny, State of Penifsylvania, have invented or discovered va certain new and useful Improvement in Methods or Processes of Treating Lime, of

{in the use of it in plaster due tojts tendency to slake, ,heat, expand, and shrink are Well known to the dealers in and users of this ma terial.

Heretofore, so far as I am aware, in preparing lime for building purposesthat is to say, in slaking the same-all the processes have been objectionable, ih so far as the product thereof hasa tendency to slake, expand, and shrink, and, inaddition to this, a considerable period of time has been required in the application of said processes. I propose to remedy these evils by dry-slaking the burnt lime byeadding thereto just that quantity of W-atensufticient to convert the lime into a hydrate of lime, and then by agitating er mixing the materials until the resultant product becomes a thoroughly-dry hydrate of lime, air being eXcludeTl frem the lime during the slaking operation and the steam confined within the vessel during the operation.

In the application of my method or process I charge the burnt lime into a substantially air and steam tight cylinder or avessel, in which isrotatably mounted a series of arms or agitators. I-then admit just sufficient water-i. e.,a quantity-sufficientto moisten and V Ihave discovered that one hundred (10O) pounds of Watc to one hundred and eighty-five (185) pounds of lime produce excellent results-4J0 convert the lime into a dryhydrate. I then seal the vessel and revolve the arms or agitators until the lime is reducedto a powdered dry hydrate uniformly and evenly slaked. In the begin ninglof the operation the unioneofthe lime and water createsva high temperature Within the sealed vessel, which converts a portion of the water n'ot\at once combined with the In carrying out my method or process I employ a cylindrical vessel mounted on a shaft and capable of being sealed ,air and steam tight. The vessel is provided with one or more manholes for charging and discharging its contents and,is also provided with an agitator, consistingiofa series of radially-disposed arms mounted on the shaft which supports the vessel and capable of rotation with in the vessel for the purpose of thoroughly agitating and mixing the materials during the slakingoperation.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Ratent, is-

lhe herein-described method or process of treating lime which consists in adding ,to burnt limej usmsuffioient water to convert the same into a dry hydrate, the mixture being constantly agitated and thoroughly commingled and air excluded and pressure maintaihed during the conversion of the burnt,

lime into a dry hydrate of lime.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence 'of two subscribing witnesses.

AUGUST H. 'LAUMAN. In presence of-- JOHN H. RONEY,

O. A. WILLIAMS. 

